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windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
Mate, we played a fella who has been past it at right back for two years at LB. This has nothing to do with ability and everything to do with the cult of personality a fat toad has introduced to the club whilst simultaneously acquiring our lowest points total for decades. Digne is a quality fullback, Benitez is a past it troll, Digne will tear up the league at his new club while we languish in the lower reaches and tools like @davek, @Saint Domingo and @ForeverBlue92 cheer our decline.
As a neutral to Benitez, there is a lot I like about what he does. But, the football is terribly defensive so what u say makes sense. He is an astute manager and I think the talk of Everton getting relegated is nonsense, absolutely no chance IMO. But I think Benitez was brought in to keep the ship afloat while u build your sexy new stadium and to keep costs down and maintain PL status. This is a similar role he had at Toon i.e. don't spend money and don't get relegated. He will deliver on that mandate but the football may be a bit painful. Things will be a lot brighter when the stadium is completed and then u can move forward (as long as u keep your owner away from making transfer decisions)
Sean LongstaffWe’re defo getting a central midfielder so mate!
Sorry, only winding you up, not trying to be disrespectful
Abertonian
Player Valuation: £20m
Fat blimp is stuck in a timewarp. A man who supposedly breathes football 24/7 and yet seemingly stopped watching the game when he left the barcodes.
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
Except at the toon he did spend money and did get relegated
As for being an astute manager lol lol
Even I know he took over Toon in March and got relegated that season, so he didn't spend money before relegation and took over when they were screwed anyway. But he won the Championship at a canter (at the first attempt (Iwe were in the Championship too, so it is a painful memory) and brought them back up and kept them in the PL
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
He was one point from safety when he took over Newcastle. He's a busted flush.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
That's like 7.3 million too much
I agree he is a busted flush but he is still astute. He is not going to win anything or do anything exciting but he is a safe pair of hands to play horrible football and guarantee PL midtable each season without breaking the bank
Is that a typo in your comment, you wrote 7.3m, did u mean 7,5m?
You might want to Google what astute means.
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
If you have enough bog standard players in your squad Keane, Coleman, Holgate, Delph, Davies, Rondon who get significant playing time on the pitch, you’ll end up there.
Not as sure on that as most seem to be mate, I remember a 6 month stint in 2019, when he looked an excellent player. He then had a horrific injury and I think it’s taken him a while to come back from, Newcastle has been a destabilising environment over the whole time of his return.
Id put him somewhere in the Gray category, of potential but lost. Whatever my feelings on the manager, he knows him better than anyone else.
I went to see Johnny Giles once and they were listing of highly rated midfielders and he said whether he rated them or not, he gave a few surprising yay or nays, when asked on what guided him, he said he always looked could a midfilder turn on the ball under pressure, receiving the ball facing his goal, to face the opposing. Longstaff can turn on the ball.
It’s a risk, but I see why we are interested.
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